Over the last few years Christmas adverts have taken their place as a modern day tradition alongside cold meats on boxing day. Once the shops empty out their Halloween leftovers the Christmas ads come out in force. And as the years have progressed agencies have had bigger budgets to play with, allowing them to bring Hollywood level visual effects to bear.

We all know that a good sysadmin/engineer is very hard to find. At Escape Technology we’ve been lucky enough to employ industry engineers who have lived and breathed VFX and post production for many years. However, it’s incredibly difficult to find people coming out of university with the right knowledge for this diverse and challenging job.

Spilt Milk Studios is a multi-award winning video game developer that’s renowned for ambitious and innovative ideas. They’re behind titles including the Rambo-inspired Tango Fiesta and, more recently, Lazarus - an immersive roguelike MMO set in the depths of space.

The birth of modern day video games started in 1972 when a computer scientist working for Atari created Pong. His name was Allan Alcorn and thanks to his invention the face of the industry changed forever.